*Newly signed midfielder Conor Shanosky (youth academy) made his D.C. United senior debut during a 4-0 victory over Georgetown University in a scrimmage at the RFK Stadium training grounds. Danny Allsopp, who had two goals against the Philadelphia Union on Sunday, scored twice, and Adam Cristman and guest player Junior Carreiro had one apiece. Shanosky, 18, is not eligible for competitive matches until next year.

*In a poll of the ACC men's coaches, North Carolina was chosen to finish atop the nation's best college conference. The Tar Heels, who advanced to the College Cup semifinals each of the previous two seasons, received seven of the nine first-place votes. Maryland was chosen No. 2, followed by reigning NCAA champion Virginia and Wake Forest. Both the Terrapins and Cavaliers will open the regular season Sept. 3 at home: Maryland vs. Michigan State and Virginia vs. Alabama-Birmingham. UVA's final preseason match is Saturday night at George Mason.

*Former MLS forward Yura Movsisyan, who attended high school and college in the United States but has committed to his native Armenia's national team, scored twice in Randers' 4-1 victory over Skovbakken in a Danish Cup match.

*With the possibility of a Buffalo-Rochester franchise joining Women's Professional Soccer next year, Washington Freedom star and western New York native Abby Wambach would seem to be an obvious target for the club, which currently operates as the Buffalo Flash, the W-League champion. Two sources familiar with the league said that, in initial conversations with the WPS, the New York group hoped Wambach would be part of the deal to join the league. When I asked Wambach about the possibility of playing back home, she said.....

"My family would love it. It's definitely an option I would consider. My contract is up after this season and there are a lot of things going on. I don't want it to be a scenario where I have to play there for the team to come into this league. What happens if I get injured? What happens when I retire? Will the team fold? If that could be part of my future, that would be great, but we [the Freedom] have to take care of business this year, first and foremost, before I make any decisions."

Abby's big but she's nowhere near big enough to play in Buffalo and Rochester at the same time.

Did anyone see this clip from Yahoo's international soccer section? A cute German sideline reporter learns the perils of working on the sideline and involuntarily demonstrates some very bad heading technique.

If I am not mistaken, in the interregnum between WUSA and WPS, Wambach chose to live in Southern California. She was either a housemate or neighbor of Shannon Boxx in one of the beach communities south of LAX. If that reflects her true geographic preferences, I am a bit surprised that she is taking a possible move to upstate New York so seriously. Perhaps she should hold out for the replacement for the Sol that is likely to materialize at some point, although at least one source says that might be a couple of years away:

Yeah, unfortunately Mike Wise has no competent editors and is probably the worst sports broadcaster in DC radio. Also, he is the only one who covers soccer on the radio or gives it any respect. Thanks Mike Wise? Any coverage is good coverage, right? Well, I guess that's where United and MLS in general is at. We'll take it where we can get it, right? Meanwhile, everyone competing in CONCACAF is making the MLS look like a bunch of losers, and Latin American teams constantly out play American (and yes, they get help from the refs, but they can only call back so many goals or award so many unwarranted ones). We've a long way to go, so please, MLS ownership (especially DC ownership) please make this the best league in North America so we can someday have a chance at taking on the world. Please? I am tired of seeing American teams lose to these teams with smaller crowds then we even have. People poo-poo CONCACAF in the US and then we get beat up on by teams outside the US who seem to have fan bases that discredit it even more than we do. MLS should be dominating this crap every year til it becomes more important to others, not the other way around.

I talked with Abby the other night about moving to a WPS team in upstate New York and she didn't sound at all enthusiastic. But since this was the party for the Washington Freedom season ticket holders, she may have been shading her comments.

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